Providing a secure base: Parenting children in long-term foster family care
Providing a secure base: Parenting children in long-term foster family care
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提供安全的基础：在长期寄养家庭照顾中养育孩子
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发表时间：
2005
影响因子：
3.2
通讯作者：
Mary Beek
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作者：
G. Schofield;Mary Beek
本文报道了一项关于长期寄养家庭中儿童成长的纵向研究。它的重点是寄养照顾者在提供一个安全的基础，寄养儿童在童年中期和青春期早期，谁主要来自虐待，忽视和心理社会逆境的背景的挑战。分离和失去孩子的生活，往往是通过多次安置，增加了在一系列发展困难的可能性。这些孩子在进入寄养家庭时往往很谨慎，不信任，控制欲强，但需要他们的照顾者提供许多通常被描述为在婴儿期提供安全基础的良好品质。本研究描述了一个育儿模式，它使用了四个与依恋理论和研究相一致的维度：促进可用性的信任，促进反思功能，促进自尊，促进自主。增加了第五个层面，即促进家庭成员关系，因为它反映了长期寄养家庭照料的儿童需要体验来自身份和归属感的安全感。从研究的定性数据表明，这种模式作为一个分析框架的有用性，但也表明了这样一个框架的工作和支持寄养家庭的潜在用途。
This paper reports on a longitudinal study of children growing up in long-term foster family care. It focuses attention on the challenges for foster carers in providing a secure base for foster children in middle childhood and early adolescence, who have come predominantly from backgrounds of abuse, neglect, and psychosocial adversity. Separation and loss in the children's lives, often through multiple placements, increase the likelihood of difficulties across a range of development. These children tend to be wary, distrustful, and controlling when they enter foster placements, but need from their carers many of the caregiving qualities most commonly described as providing a secure base in infancy. This study describes a model of parenting which uses four caregiving dimensions that are consistent with attachment theory and research: promoting trust in availability, promoting reflective function, promoting self-esteem, and promoting autonomy. A fifth dimension, promoting family membership, is added, as it reflects the need for children in long-term foster family care to experience the security that comes from a sense of identity and belonging. Qualitative data from the study demonstrates the usefulness of this model as a framework for analysis, but also suggests the potential use of such a framework for working with and supporting foster carers.